Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt defends Bill Bennett up to a point but concludes:
There is one thing I would take Bennett to task for: first saying that he doesn’t believe our abortion-crime hypothesis but then revealing that he does believe it with his comments about black babies. You can’t have it both ways.
Andrew Sullivan adds:
[B]y reflexively relating race to an argument [Bennett] simultaneously rejects, his remarks do indeed have a tinge of racism in their assumptions.
Yup.
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